BACKGROUND Nation-wide road casualty figures usually come from police data. In France, as in many developed countries, the reporting of fatalities is almost complete but the reporting of non-fatal casualties is rather low. It is moreover strongly biased. Valid estimates are needed. METHODS Using the capture-recapture method on police data and on a road trauma registry covering a large county ...

Eyewitness identification research has had a strong impact in the United States recently. A. M. Levi and R. C. L. Lindsay (2001) discussed the role of psychologists’ recommendations for lineup reform and urged that these include numerous items, however complex, rather than only a few items that are readily understood by policymakers. They focused on the recommendations of 1 article in particula...

T his commentary explains conflicting trends in violence over the past decade as derived from the two official sources of information: household crime surveys designed to identify citizens’ experience of crime and police data. Police records, rather than representing a reliable measure of trends in violence, are a product of police activity—increasingly prompted by better surveillance and targe...

The purpose of this research is to produce a web-based application for the aptitude test members Indonesian National Police. type used in development with Research & Development (R&D) design from Borg and Gall. This was conducted 9 stages namely, (1) information collecting, (2) Planning, (3) Develop preliminary form product, (4) Preminary field testing, (5) Main product revision, (6) (7...

The article examines the value orientations of police officers as a factor in personnel turnover National Police Ukraine, and also analyzes conditions under which training future specialists takes place, special scientific literature legal framework on subject research. problem valuable practitioners bodies Police, from point view methodology, needs to be considered ethical philosophical aspect...

While police levels may affect crime, governments may react to crime by increasing police levels. The instrumental variables (IV) approach to this problem has proven difficult due to the problem of locating instruments for police levels. Using panel data from over 5000 cities (1990–2001), we instrumented police levels with two types of federal law enforcement grants, thus yielding over-identifi...

Research on police culture has generally fallen within one of two competing camps—one that depicts culture as an occupational phenomenon that encompasses all police officers and one that focuses on officer differences. The latter conceptualization of police culture suggests subcultures (or at least segmentation) that bound or delimit the occupational culture. Using survey data collected as part...

Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized trial testing whether these institutions can be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India collaborated with researchers at US and Ind...

The manual crime recording and investigation systems in police stations all around the world are generating piles of crime documents which make storage and retrieval of reliable crime information extremely difficult as well as inefficient. Furthermore, investigators of central authorities have to manually search through these documents and communicate between the relevant police stations to obt...